Unjumbled lesson plan

Pre-reading stage:

1. [i] Introduce topic of new unit: fads and trends. Pre-teach or elicit ‘fad’ and ‘trend’. Ls
brainstorm examples from their own experience: collect on board.

2. [b] Pairs. Ls do exercise “Guessing Vocabulary”. Ls guess the meaning of key

vocabulary (lifestyle, in fashion, out of date, slang) from context, looking at example
sentences from passage. Check Ls understand.

3. [h] Look at pictures related to fads and trends in the US. Ls discuss pictures in pairs:
predict topics article will mention.

4. [j] Collect ideas about Ls’ predictions on board.

While-reading stage:

5. [g] Pairs. Ls do exercise “Understanding Reading Structure”: identifying topic

sentence of each paragraph from article.

6. [f] Collect answers to reading structure exercise.

7. [a] Reading activity: “True or False?”. Ls decide if statements about the main ideas in
the text (Fads and Trends in the USA) are true or false.

8. [e] Give/ask for answers to “True or False?”. Clarify any problems.

Post-reading stage:

9. [c] Groups. Discussion – elicit/suggest a recent trend (e.g. mobile telephones,

computers, a recent fashion); in groups, Ls discuss advantages and disadvantages of
the trend they choose.

10.[d] Assign homework: “Building Vocabulary and Study Skills: Fads and Trends”.